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Month: March, 2008

BWG Sundays

30 March, 2008 (19:45) | future/retro, miscellaneous, objects, silly | No comments

More BandWidth Gobbling on that Sunday with one hour less…
Todays’ theme: hair.

God, I was so much in love with Marsha Hunt, way back in the 70ties.

Women with long hair equals goodness.

Disproportionality.

Plastic wind-up toys, Godzilla, Zero’s & tanks. What more can a boy want ?

icanhazcheezburger.com, always good for a smile or two.

Added bonus: purple wig, silver […]

Family Tree

30 March, 2008 (18:46) | cars | No comments

Cars, cars, cars…. whom is related to who, who owns whom, who whores with who, who has siblings with whom, and so on…
Sad Funny to see Tata in there. I guess we should start to get used to see Indian and Chinese carmakers in that chart more often.
I really had no idea that Lada is […]

RIP Dith Pran

30 March, 2008 (18:28) | Cambodia, dead people | No comments

Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born US journalist whose enslavement and escape from the Khmer Rouge became the subject of the famous film, The Killing Fields, has died.
BBC article…

Engine update

30 March, 2008 (14:01) | blogging | No comments

Just updated my blog’s engine - WordPress - to version 2.5.
Not that you care, but this makes my life just a little bit easier.
Actually, come to think of it,I don’t care either. It’s a blog engine, ferchrissake.

BeoWolf

30 March, 2008 (01:28) | music, personal, synthesizer | 2 comments

[click the image for a full frontal ehm, shot of BeoWolf]
Well, it’s finally done, my BeoWolf software-synth, the companion to my SteppenWolf sequencer.
{for those not knowing the difference between a VCO and a VCF, or those whom generally couldn’t care less about synth geek talk, please move on}
- Dual VCO’s, both with pulse (w/ adjustable […]

Uncanny Valley.

29 March, 2008 (01:28) | WTF?, dead people, living people, technology | 1 comment

You know what the uncanny valley [wiki] is, right ?
Well, ehm, this is uncanny valley. Really.
Urghh. Now I can’t sleep anymore.

Sid Mead’s RetroFuturism

28 March, 2008 (14:12) | art, design, future/retro | No comments

Wonderfully beautiful set of retro-futuristic illustrations from Sid Mead (Blade Runner anyone?), commissioned by United States Steel International in the early 60’s.
Be sure to check out the bigger sizes (gawd, I hate flickr), and check out those amazing details and colors.

No, I’m not.

28 March, 2008 (05:52) | living people, personal | 1 comment

In case any of you were wondering… no, I’m not dead. Yet.
Don’t know what to post. Just busy. Have nothing interesting to say. Bored with blogging.
Just busy, you know.
 
I always wondered why cars had to have yellow headlights in France. Kinda liked that.
And now they don’t anymore. When did that happen ?

New Belgian Cabinet ends crisis.

20 March, 2008 (12:58) | silly | No comments

I am thoroughly ashamed of living in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, where hillbilly politicians squabble over nothing for nine months. What was the saying again ? “My dick is bigger than yours.” … Douchebags.
Utterly depressing it is.
BBC article here…
 

Questionaut

20 March, 2008 (00:15) | art, miscellaneous, steampunk | 1 comment

A wonderfully beautiful learning quiz for kids by the BBC and Amanita Design.
Eight levels of wondrous fascination for knowledge, shaped in gorgeous form and function.
Luvverly.

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